It is time to prepare to listen to space. To celebrate the launch of the European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO), ESA’s Education Office challenges the amateur radio community to listen out to be first to hear the new spacecraft orbiting Earth.

ESA Education and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are delighted to announce that Phase 2 of the European Astro Pi Challenge: Mission Space Lab has begun. During Phase 1, we received a record-breaking 471 entries from 24 countries! Now, the 365 selected teams will have the chance to write computer programs for the scientific experiments they want to send to the Astro Pi computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS)!

Last week enthusiastic future engineers and scientists had the chance to participate in the ESA Academy’s inaugural Space Systems Engineering Training Course at the Academy’s Training and Learning Facility, ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium.

This pilot cycle brought together the 30 University students, representing 16 ESA Member States, with ESA current and retired staff, who, armed with a wealth of experience in Space Systems Engineering and Project Management, set about the task of divulging the rich and varied work of a System Engineer at ESA.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, the European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) in Belgium has formalised its collaboration with the Ministry of the German-speaking community in Belgium and the Autonome Hochschule (AHS) in Eupen, to deliver STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) support to teachers and schools.

Mission Zero officially launches today as part of the European Astro Pi Challenge 2018-2019, an ESA Education programme run in collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It offers teams of students and young people the chance to have their computer programs run in space on the International Space Station!

Last week and for the very first time, ESA’s Education Office held a selection workshop for the new educational programme called Orbit Your Thesis! (OYT). Team SpaceMed from the University of Bucharest and the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania and team ISAE Aorta In Microgravity (AIM) from the University ISAE-SUPAERO in France competed against each other in order to win a place in the Orbit Your Thesis! 2019 programme.

ESA’s Education Office is looking for 30 engineering university students who would like to be introduced to the fascinating world of spacecraft communications. The Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Communications 2019 will run again between 5 and 8 February 2019 at the ESA Education Training Centre in ESEC-Galaxia, one of the two sites of the European space Security and Education Centre, in Transinne, Belgium.

Dreaming of flying a satellite into space but not sure how? Wonder no more! The ESA Education Office and ESA’s Systems and Concurrent Engineering Section are looking for university students to participate in the second edition of ESA Academy’s Concurrent Engineering Workshop dedicated to CubeSats. The 4-day workshop will be organised between 15 and 18 January 2019 at the Training and Learning Facility in ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium.

Last week, ESA’s Education Office invited six student teams to ESA ESTEC in Noordwijk to present their experiment ideas to the Fly Your Thesis! 2019 Selection Board. The six student teams were from Poland (CANCER), Germany (Grain Power 3D-Printing and TARDIS), the United Kingdom (PHP3) and Italy (BAMBI), respectively. Eventually, two teams were selected to participate in the parabolic flight programme of the Fly Your Thesis! 2019 campaign.

ESA’s Education Office, with the support of the Science, Applications & Climate Department, is now inviting applications from Master and PhD students enrolled in engineering or science degrees for an exciting new workshop on Earth Observation Remote Sensing.

As ESEO (the European Student Earth Orbiter) just concluded its test campaign this week, the ESEO student teams have gathered yesterday in the Netherlands for a last precious lesson before the satellite is launched.

For the past couple of weeks ESEO has been at ESA’s ESTEC test facilities, in the Netherlands, where it completed the last steps of a thorough satellite test campaign which had started in August 2018 at SITAEL’s facility in Mola di Bari, Italy.

This set of activities includes hands-on experiments and the interpretation of satellite images for better understanding the overall effects of global warming. In activity 1 students will make a model to demonstrate the greenhouse effect by showing that a higher level of carbon dioxide (CO2) means a higher temperature. The experiment will be complemented by the interpretation of satellite images showing the Earth’s CO2 levels at different time periods. Students will then learn about some of the consequences of an increased greenhouse effect – ice melting and changing albedo values. Students will explore these topics in activities 2 and 3.